At a total of 41 books, this adds up to just over three a month, which to a voracious reader is pretty shameful. I’m keeping in mind that for the past few months I wasn’t able to read hardly anything for pleasure because of how busy I was with work and school-related stuff. There are also a few more that I read most of, but didn’t finish for one reason or another, that I didn’t include. I write them all down so that I’ll remember them. Even reading over this list just now reminded me of ones that I had almost forgotten about. Here goes:
1) Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
3) Getting Over It, by Anna Maxted
4) Sula, by Toni Morrison
5) I’ll Take You There, by Joyce Carol Oates
6) Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
7) The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
8) Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron
9) The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
10) Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
11) The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
12) The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
13) The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
14) The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud
15) The Covenant, by Beverly Lewis
16) Resistance, by Anita Shreve
17) The Kitchen God’s Wife, by Amy Tan
18) The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
19) The Black Rose, by Tananarive Due
20) The Hungry Gene, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
21) Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
22) The Making of June, by Annie Ward
23) My Antonia, by Willa Cather
24) Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
25) The Whole Woman, by Germaine Greer
26) Fat Land, by Greg Critser
27) Fire With Fire, by Naomi Wolf
28) The King of Torts, by John Grisham
29) Quentins, by Maeve Binchy
30) What Women Want, by Patricia Ireland
31) Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher
32) Shutterbabe, by Deborah Copaken Kogan
33) Tara Road, by Maeve Binchy
34) Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin
35) The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
36) The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
37) The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould
38) Sidewalk, by Mitchell Duneier
39) Blood in the Face, by James Ridgeway
40) Strip City, by Lily Burana
41) The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
